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Physical Review Letters – 24 May 1999
Volume 82, Issue 21

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

Gathered here for your convenience are articles that have been highlighted in Physics, selected as an Editors' Suggestion, or are of special interest for other reasons.

Ultrastable CO2 Laser Trapping of Lithium Fermions
K. M. O'Hara, S. R. Granade, M. E. Gehm, T. A. Savard, S. Bali, C. Freed, and J. E. Thomas
pp. 4204-4207 [View PDF (139 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Quantum Monte Carlo Method for Fermions, Free of Discretization Errors
S. M. A. Rombouts, K. Heyde, and N. Jachowicz
pp. 4155-4159 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Topological Origin of the Phase Transition in a Mean-Field Model
Lapo Casetti, E. G. D. Cohen, and Marco Pettini
pp. 4160-4163 [View PDF (154 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Geometrical Finiteness, Holography, and the Bañados-Teitelboim-Zanelli Black Hole
Danny Birmingham, Conall Kennedy, Siddhartha Sen, and Andy Wilkins
pp. 4164-4167 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Cosmological Constraints on Late-time Entropy Production
M. Kawasaki, K. Kohri, and Naoshi Sugiyama
pp. 4168-4171 [View PDF (324 kB)]
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New Constraint on Open Cold-Dark-Matter Models
Ali Kinkhabwala and Marc Kamionkowski
pp. 4172-4175 [View PDF (194 kB)]
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Sharpening the Predictions of Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis
Scott Burles, Kenneth M. Nollett, James W. Truran, and Michael S. Turner
pp. 4176-4179 [View PDF (195 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Axinos as Cold Dark Matter
Laura Covi, Jihn E. Kim, and Leszek Roszkowski
pp. 4180-4183 [View PDF (159 kB)]
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String Fields and the Standard Model
T. Dereli and Robin W. Tucker
pp. 4184-4187 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Quark Spectra, Topology, and Random Matrix Theory
Robert G. Edwards, Urs M. Heller, Joe Kiskis, and Rajamani Narayanan
pp. 4188-4191 [View PDF (308 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Antibaryon Density in the Central Rapidity Region of Heavy-Ion Collisions
Jacek Dziarmaga and Mariusz Sadzikowski
pp. 4192-4195 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Inverse Kinematics Proton Scattering on 18Ne and Mirror Symmetry in A  = 18 Nuclei
L. A. Riley, J. K. Jewell, P. D. Cottle, T. Glasmacher, K. W. Kemper, N. Alamanos, Y. Blumenfeld, J. A. Carr, M. J. Chromik, R. W. Ibbotson, F. Maréchal, W. E. Ormand, F. Petrovich, H. Scheit, and T. Suomijärvi
pp. 4196-4199 [View PDF (414 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Precision Measurement of the 1s2p 3P2-3P1 Fine Structure Interval in Heliumlike Fluorine
E. G. Myers, H. S. Margolis, J. K. Thompson, M. A. Farmer, J. D. Silver, and M. R. Tarbutt
pp. 4200-4203 [View PDF (122 kB)]
Ultrastable CO2 Laser Trapping of Lithium Fermions
K. M. O'Hara, S. R. Granade, M. E. Gehm, T. A. Savard, S. Bali, C. Freed, and J. E. Thomas
pp. 4204-4207 [View PDF (139 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Measurement of p-Wave Threshold Law Using Evaporatively Cooled Fermionic Atoms
B. DeMarco, J. L. Bohn, J. P. Burke, Jr., M. Holland, and D. S. Jin
pp. 4208-4211 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Missing Bands in the Multiphoton Excitation of Coupled Molecular States
B. R. Lewis, S. T. Gibson, Richard A. Copeland, and C. G. Bressler
pp. 4212-4215 [View PDF (202 kB)]
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Optically Pumped Electron Spin Filter
H. Batelaan, A. S. Green, B. A. Hitt, and T. J. Gay
pp. 4216-4219 [View PDF (119 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Universality of the Wigner Time Delay Distribution for One-Dimensional Random Potentials
Christophe Texier and Alain Comtet
pp. 4220-4223 [View PDF (349 kB)]
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Quantum Chaos of a Kicked Particle in an Infinite Potential Well
Bambi Hu, Baowen Li, Jie Liu, and Yan Gu
pp. 4224-4227 [View PDF (269 kB)]
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Alternating Locking Ratios in Imperfect Phase Synchronization
Michael A. Zaks, Eun-Hyoung Park, Michael G. Rosenblum, and Jürgen Kurths
pp. 4228-4231 [View PDF (1,336 kB)]
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Liquid Flow through Aqueous Foams: The Node-Dominated Foam Drainage Equation
Stephan A. Koehler, Sascha Hilgenfeldt, and Howard A. Stone
pp. 4232-4235 [View PDF (308 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Universality and Crossover of Directed Polymers and Growing Surfaces
Paolo De Los Rios
pp. 4236-4239 [View PDF (181 kB)]
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Sensitivity of Extended X-Ray-Absorption Fine Structure to Thermal Expansion
G. Dalba, P. Fornasini, R. Grisenti, and J. Purans
pp. 4240-4243 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Depletion-Induced Demixing in Polydisperse Mixtures of Hard Spheres
Richard P. Sear
pp. 4244-4247 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Field Induced Structural Transition in Mesocrystallites
Weijia Wen, Ning Wang, Hongru Ma, Zhifang Lin, Wing Yim Tam, C. T. Chan, and Ping Sheng
pp. 4248-4251 [View PDF (292 kB)]
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Scaling Parameter and Periodic Phase in Liquid Crystals
X. Y. Wang and A. J. Guenthner
pp. 4252-4255 [View PDF (919 kB)]
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Sum-Frequency Vibrational Spectroscopic Study of a Rubbed Polymer Surface
Xing Wei, Xiaowei Zhuang, Seok-Cheol Hong, Tomohisa Goto, and Y. R. Shen
pp. 4256-4259 [View PDF (258 kB)]
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Simultaneous Measurement of Self- and Transport Diffusivities in Zeolites
H. Jobic, J. Kärger, and M. Bée
pp. 4260-4263 [View PDF (97 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Orbital Ordering, Jahn-Teller Distortion, and Anomalous X-Ray Scattering in Manganates
I. S. Elfimov, V. I. Anisimov, and G. A. Sawatzky
pp. 4264-4267 [View PDF (181 kB)]
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Non-Fermi-Liquid Behavior at a Ferromagnetic Quantum Critical Point in NixPd1-x
M. Nicklas, M. Brando, G. Knebel, F. Mayr, W. Trinkl, and A. Loidl
pp. 4268-4271 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Generalized Fokker-Planck Equation for Multichannel Disordered Quantum Conductors
K. A. Muttalib and J. R. Klauder
pp. 4272-4275 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Low-Temperature Resistivity in a Nearly Half-Metallic Ferromagnet
Xindong Wang and X.-G. Zhang
pp. 4276-4279 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Interplay of Disorder and Spin Fluctuations in the Resistivity near a Quantum Critical Point
A. Rosch
pp. 4280-4283 [View PDF (230 kB)]
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Exchange Fields and the Finite Bias Tunneling Anomaly in Paramagnetically Limited Superconducting Al Films
V. Yu. Butko, P. W. Adams, and I. L. Aleiner
pp. 4284-4287 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Inverse Tunnel Magnetoresistance in Co/SrTiO3/La0.7Sr0.3MnO3: New Ideas on Spin-Polarized Tunneling
J. M. De Teresa, A. Barthélémy, A. Fert, J. P. Contour, R. Lyonnet, F. Montaigne, P. Seneor, and A. Vaurès
pp. 4288-4291 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Stability of the Compressible Quantum Hall State around the Half-Filled Landau Level
Kenzo Ishikawa, Nobuki Maeda, and Tetsuyuki Ochiai
pp. 4292-4295 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Possible Superconductivity in the Doped Ladder Compound La1-xSrxCuO2.5
B. Normand, D. F. Agterberg, and T. M. Rice
pp. 4296-4299 [View PDF (329 kB)]
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63Cu NQR Measurement of Stripe Order Parameter in La2-xSrxCuO4
A. W. Hunt, P. M. Singer, K. R. Thurber, and T. Imai
pp. 4300-4303 [View PDF (206 kB)]
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Incoherent Pair Tunneling as a Probe of the Cuprate Pseudogap
Boldizsár Jankó, Ioan Kosztin, K. Levin, M. R. Norman, and Douglas J. Scalapino
pp. 4304-4307 [View PDF (186 kB)]
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Novel Angular Scaling of Vortex Phase Transitions in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+y
S. Ooi, T. Shibauchi, N. Okuda, and T. Tamegai
pp. 4308-4311 [View PDF (210 kB)]
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Ferromagnetism in Single-Band Hubbard Models with a Partially Flat Band
Andreas Mielke
pp. 4312-4315 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Two-Dimensional Charge-Transport and Spin-Valve Effect in the Layered Antiferromagnet Nd0.45Sr0.55MnO3
H. Kuwahara, T. Okuda, Y. Tomioka, A. Asamitsu, and Y. Tokura
pp. 4316-4319 [View PDF (464 kB)]
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Collisions of Spin Wave Envelope Solitons and Self-Focused Spin Wave Packets in Yttrium Iron Garnet Films
O. Büttner, M. Bauer, S. O. Demokritov, B. Hillebrands, M. P. Kostylev, B. A. Kalinikos, and A. N. Slavin
pp. 4320-4323 [View PDF (857 kB)]
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Competitions in Layered Ruthenates: Ferromagnetism versus Antiferromagnetism and Triplet versus Singlet Pairing
I. I. Mazin and D. J. Singh
pp. 4324-4327 [View PDF (575 kB)]
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Transition between Two Ferromagnetic States Driven by Orbital Ordering in La0.88Sr0.12MnO3
Y. Endoh, K. Hirota, S. Ishihara, S. Okamoto, Y. Murakami, A. Nishizawa, T. Fukuda, H. Kimura, H. Nojiri, K. Kaneko, and S. Maekawa
pp. 4328-4331 [View PDF (194 kB)]
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Slow Dynamics for Spin-Glass-Like Phase of a Ferromagnetic Fine Particle System
H. Mamiya, I. Nakatani, and T. Furubayashi
pp. 4332-4335 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Evidence of Exchange-Bias-Like Phenomenon in GdFe/TbFe/GdFe Domain Wall Junctions
S. Mangin, G. Marchal, and B. Barbara
pp. 4336-4339 [View PDF (190 kB)]
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Calculations of the A1 Phonon Frequency in Photoexcited Tellurium
P. Tangney and S. Fahy
pp. 4340-4343 [View PDF (99 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Optimal Purification of Single Qubits
J. I. Cirac, A. K. Ekert, and C. Macchiavello
pp. 4344-4347 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Catastrophe in Diffusion-Controlled Annihilation Dynamics
Boris M. Shipilevsky
pp. 4348-4351 [View PDF (364 kB)]
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Entropic Attraction and Repulsion in Binary Colloids Probed with a Line Optical Tweezer
J. C. Crocker, J. A. Matteo, A. D. Dinsmore, and A. G. Yodh
pp. 4352-4355 [View PDF (241 kB)]
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Activity of Transmembrane Proteins Induces Magnification of Shape Fluctuations of Lipid Membranes
J.-B. Manneville, P. Bassereau, D. Lévy, and J. Prost
pp. 4356-4359 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Phase Diagram of Traffic States in the Presence of Inhomogeneities
Dirk Helbing, Ansgar Hennecke, and Martin Treiber
pp. 4360-4363 [View PDF (768 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Detection of New Dissociative Electron Attachment Channels in NO”
E. Illenberger and T. D. Märk
pp. 4364 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Orient and Chutjian Reply:
O. J. Orient and A. Chutjian
pp. 4365 [View PDF (52 kB)]
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Comment on “Direct Imaging of Local Chemical Disorder and Columnar Vacancies in Ideal Decagonal Al-Ni-Co Quasicrystals”
Gerrit Coddens
pp. 4366 [View PDF (19 kB)]
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Yan, Pennycook, and Pang Reply:
Yanfa Yan, Stephen J. Pennycook, and An Pang Tsai
pp. 4367 [View PDF (27 kB)]
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Comment on “Evidence of Quantum Correlation Effects of Protons and Deuterons in Raman Spectra of Liquid H2O-D2O”
M. Grimsditch
pp. 4368 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Chatzidimitriou-Dreismann and Abdul-Redah Reply:
C. A. Chatzidimitriou-Dreismann and T. Abdul-Redah
pp. 4369 [View PDF (74 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Flatband Conditions Observed for Lanthanide-Silicide Monolayers on n-Type Si(111) [Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1927 (1999)]
S. Vandré, T. Kalka, C. Preinesberger, and M. Dähne-Prietsch
pp. 4370 [View PDF (28 kB)]
 
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